The best Olin Howland’s music movies

Olin Howland

Olin Howland

10/02/1886- 20/09/1959
Today we present the best Olin Howland’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Olin Howland’s movies.
Available on:

Wagon Wheels

Wagon Wheels
5.6/10
Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original and substituting a new cast headed by Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick to replace the earlier film's Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. The western movie was directed by Charles Barton from the Zane Grey novel "Fighting Caravans."

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1935
  • Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

Sweethearts

Sweethearts
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/12/1938
  • Character: Appleby
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.

So This Is Love

So This Is Love
6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1953
  • Character: Mailman
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

The Sky's the Limit

The Sky's the Limit
6.3/10
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.

Sing Your Way Home

Sing Your Way Home
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/11/1945
  • Character: Steward
In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has been assigned to watch over a band of teenagers who were trapped in Europe four years ago while entertaining the troops. Their entrapment has done nothing to dim their enthusiasm for performing and while waiting for passage the crews entertain everyone at every opportunity. Songs include: "I'll Buy That Dream" (sung by Anne Jeffreys), "Heaven Is a Place Called Home," "Seven O'Clock in the Morning (Waking up Boogie)," "Somebody Stole My Poor Little Heart" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel), and "The Lord's Prayer" (arranged by Albert Hay Malotte).

Dixie

Dixie
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1943
  • Character: Mr. Deveraux (as Olin Howlin)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937
6.4/10
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

Living in a Big Way

Living in a Big Way
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/06/1947
  • Character: Gardener
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

Folies Bergère de Paris

Folies Bergère de Paris
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Stage Manager
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

Senorita from the West

Senorita from the West
5.4/10
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.

Twilight on the Prairie

Twilight on the Prairie
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 30/04/1944
  • Character: Jed (as Olin Howlin)
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."

Related actors